- 800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
- 1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris.
- 1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, thus ending a 60 year period of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty).
- 1821 – The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued.
- 1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
- 1824 – U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate had received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
- 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
- 1864 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
- 1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the first Balkan war, is annexed by Greece.
- 1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28).
- 1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
- 1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
- 1919 – Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
- 1925 – World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
- 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
- 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of a sexual reassignment operation.
- 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1958 – The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
- 1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
- 1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
- 1961 – The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
- 1963 – Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
- 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
- 1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
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Posted by E.J. on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 13:24:28
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